Offset your CO2 emissions!
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Mindful of the quality of its sustainable development approach and proposed programs, EcoAct seeks the msot demanding standards, and has committed to the ADEME's Charter for voluntary carbon offsetting, is a member of ICROA, and guarantees the tracking of its carbon credits via internationally reknowned registries.
Our carbon offset programmes:
How to offset your CO2 emissions?
- Introduction to EcoAct carbon offset programmes
- Extracts from EcoAct carbon offset programmes portfolio
- Best practice and international standards of the carbon market
Carbon offset: a means to fight climate change
CO2 emissions offsetting (defined in CO2 equivalent tons ot tCO2e) is a necessary tool to fight climate change.Carbon offsetting allows an organization to compensate the equivalent amount of its residual emissions by financing one or several GHG reduction programmes in a developing country. This mechanism thus allows to reduce, in a developing country, a GHG volume identical to the one produced within the emitting country.
There are two types of carbon offsetting:
- the voluntary carbon offsetting, gathering all voluntary approaches to reduce CO2 emissions and carbon footprint,
- and the compliance carbon offsetting, based upon CDM (Clean Development Mechanism) projects that enter the field of Kyoto Protocol and are registered by the United Nations.
Introduction to EcoAct carbon offset programmes
EcoAct selects programmes that put social aspect and help to destitute populations forward. The projects implementation is done in collaboration with all local stakeholders: environnemental associations, companies, NGOs, states or social organisms.
EcoAct programmes all follow CDM methodologies stated by the UNFCCC and are verified by independent auditors accredited by the UNFCCC.
The EcoAct team pilots each project implementation and follow-up on-site.
Two values at the heart of our projects: environment and people.
EcoAct carbon offset programmes aim at implementing a concrete project supporting environment preservation and fight against climate change while involving destitute local populations.
Characteristics of EcoAct programmes:
• Implemented in developing countries,
• Voluntary carbon offset as well as CDM,
• Following UNFCCC methodologies (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change).
Types of carbon offset programmes proposed by EcoAct:
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- Renewable energy |
Hydroelectricity, biomass, windmills, thermal / sun, photovoltaic, etc. |
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- Energy efficiency |
Industry, transportation, tertiary sector, domestic, agriculture, etc. |
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- Land and forest use |
Reboisement, déforestation évitée |
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- Methane capture |
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Extracts from EcoAct carbon offset programmes portfolio
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Biogas farm (Itarare, Brazil) This project aims at implementing anaerobic biodigestors which will replace open-air lagoons, to recover biogas and to generate electricity, while avoiding that the of animal waste decomposition produce numerous GHG emissions. |
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"Along the water" (Malana, India) The projet consists of replacing thermal plants of the Kullu district, highly consuming fossile fuel. The implementation of a hydraulic station with a power of 2 X 43 MW, also called « along the water », has been created on the Malana river, in the village of Jari. The station’s activity has brought new sources of income in the region while creating jobs. |
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Windfarm (Diaobingshan, China) China massively uses coal-based power plants charbon to generate electricity. The air pollution which results from this creates problems in the large cities as well as in the rural zones (respiratory diseases). The installation of windmills is an efficient and completely natural energy alternative. |
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Small hydroelectricity (Sanquhar and Delta, Sri Lanka) To face the increasing demand for energy in Sri Lanka and the growing number of coal-based power stations, a fossile fuel, this project aims at the construction of two small-size hydroelectric power stations which respect the existing environment, also called “along the water”. The activity of the two power stations brings new sources of income in the area by creating perennial job. In opposition to the hydraulic dams, these power stations are fully integrated within the existing environment. |
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Biomass and native forest preservation (Irmãos Fredi, Brazil) The ceramic industry in the backwards areas of Brazil supports the intensive exploitation of the Brazilian forest. In addition, in Brazil, there is an important stock of biomass residues resulting from the wood processing industry, which reject methane during their decomposition. It is thus necessary to help the local populations to develop an economic activity without exploiting the native forest. For this small family ceramics factory, the project consists in switching energy sources from wood coming from non sustainably managed forests to another biomass (rice bugs, acai cores or sawdust). |
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Bioelectricity and fuel switch (Rio Amazonas, Brazil) The project is located in a non electrified zone. The objective consists, as for the ceramic industry, to recover the unused biomass coming from sawmills as a source of energy for the operation of a soya treatment plant, in substitution of the power generating units functioning with diesel and the thermal units running on oil fuel. The valorization of the biomass represents an efficient and “clean” energy alternative to the use of fossile fuels, and makes it possible to combine economic development and environmental benefit in these backwards areas of Brazil.. |
Best practice and international standards of the carbon market
Published by the French Environmental and Energy Agency (ADEME) in March 2008, this charter for the voluntary carbon offsetting operators defines criteria to guarantee the voluntary offsetting in France, to complete the existing international standards.
This charter demands that the projects meet criteria such as: additionality, UNFCCC's CDM methodology for project description, perennity of carbon offset projects and permanence of carbon credits, sustainable development benefits both environmental and social, measurement of reduced CO2, an independent expertise for project verification, and carbon credits uniqueness.
For more information: visit ADEME's voluntary offsetting website.
Read the ADEME's Charter for voluntary carbon offsetting.
For further information, contact us.
EcoAct has thus been admitted to join ICROA, an international alliance that promotes and upholds best practice and the most demanding standards for carbon offsetting.
More information: www.icroa.org
